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- Comment on 😐?? 1 day ago:
The “you are free to use cla calculator” is just perfect. Pure art.
- Comment on 35FT. Fucks Ok 2 days ago:
The real lesson here is that fucks were inside trucks the whole time.
- Comment on hmm 3 days ago:
What even if civilization really
- Comment on For the love of the game... 4 days ago:
Best I could ever be is a semi-renowned derptologist.
- Comment on The Gang Solves Climate Change 1 week ago:
Unburned methane escaping is far far worse for climate change than burning it so yeah these strike are bad.
It’s the so called payer-decider gap. The costs of this are spread out among basically the whole world (payers) while the deciders of when to end this war are basically just the US and Israel (deciders).
Since they don’t bear the full consequences of the war, they don’t have to consider the full consequences when deciding.
- Comment on NVIDIA Says You're "Completely Wrong" About DLSS 5 Being Slop - Gamers Nexus 1 week ago:
Yeah but social media backlash isn’t the tangible way of determining what customers think. If customers still shell out the money for these things (seems they will) then customers are providing approval of this shit in the only way that actually matters.
- Comment on US presidents ranked by how much of a soul it looks like they have behind those eyes 2 weeks ago:
This is why Taft deserves S-tier.
- Comment on 'Consider a system with no DRAM' replaced by a 'recycling fiber loop': John Carmack envisages bold future to avoid AI-driven RAM crisis 2 weeks ago:
The lack of investment in more production capacity for RAM is based on a roughly 3-year horizon for this insane extra AI demand.
Creating workable consumer-grade alternatives with delay line memory of all things would take longer than that, and the market would collapse the moment AI demand for RAM dried up. This is one of those things that is theoretically possible but due to both technology and market conditions will absolutely not be a thing.
- Comment on A product of his environment 3 weeks ago:
Shit Americans will do instead of just abolishing HOAs.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 month ago:
Self-hosted options like Mumble also exist.
Self-hosted is a pain to get started with but as everything enshittifies if will only get more important.
- Comment on I went back to Linux and it was a mistake 1 month ago:
Plus the ability to run Linux off of bootable flash drives let’s you figure out any driver issues BEFORE fully taking the plunge.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I mean a fig wasp has to die in them right? Pretty dark shit. It’s arguably not even vegan.
- Comment on major dick bong 2 months ago:
Do WASP parents know their sons are going to by Dick when they name them Richard?
Asking because there’s a guy named Dick Pound and I’m just picturing Mr. And Mrs. Pound with this newborn baby and being like “we will name him Richard. He will go by Dick. With a hard D”.
- Comment on FACT FOCUS: Trump says tariffs can eventually replace federal income taxes. Experts disagree 3 months ago:
Even if it wasn’t regressive (which it is) it still wouldn’t work to replace income tax. The tariffs incentivize domestication of production, so people are literally incentivized to circumvent them. That’s also (lol) one of the stated goals here - being back manufacturing. But you can’t use tariffs to both bring back manufacturing and replace income tax or even a substantial part of it in the short term anyways. It’s really just one or the other.
- Comment on Palantir and flock are your enemy. 4 months ago:
I think it can be repaired but it would require an actual human being as a leader. I dont know if you have that over there in politics.
You have plenty in politics. Special interests (mainly but not exclusively the rich) have seen to it that the American electorate would never make any of them president. Billionaires don’t buy news and media outlets because they love honest journalism.
- Comment on It's important! 4 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 4 months ago:
A good low (basically zero) risk way to start is to flash an image of say Ubuntu onto a flash drive. They’re usually bootable. So you can boot into Linux right off the flash drive.
This obvious takes a performance hit compared to actually installing it, but it’ll let you confirm that it actually works on your hardware.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 4 months ago:
Apparently when Satya Nadella took over, Steve Ballmer told him “don’t screw up”. In terms of stock price and profits, he absolutely hasn’t. In terms of producing products that consumers might actually want to pay for, he has failed completely and Microsoft has never been in a worse position. But those two things are completely disconnected now so it’s fine.
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 4 months ago:
I think that the reality of the situation is breaking through the Trump Delusion Syndrome a lot of these die-hards had and they are starting to see what really is going on and they’re pissed and silently fuming about it now.
The fundamental problem with this logic is that anyone dumb enough to have fallen for this in the first place (and to vote for Trump again in 2024) is more than dumb enough to fall victim to all the nonsense of the next election. There’s no way this momentary glimmer of rationality will survive an election campaign, and the utterly broken epistemology of these people is no closer to being fixed.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 4 months ago:
You really don’t see the risk of having no data centers you actually control as an organization?
This really depends on what you think you’re getting from having your own DC. Is it reliability? Flexibility? Control? What are you objectives?
There’s some argument to be made to have some locally hosted stuff for some flexibility and control. And in some niche cases the pricing of public offerings doesn’t make sense.
But as I said, if you’re building your own data center for increased reliability then 1) you’re necessarily assuming the premise that you’re going to be better at managing DCs than Google, Microsoft and AWS which I think in reality would be hard to prove let alone do, and 2) is hard to justify considering you can distribute workloads across multiple data centers already (as proven by the Netflix example) so that your reliability isn’t limited by any one vendor.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 4 months ago:
You’re kind of proving (part of) my point?
How? Their reliability would exist without that. There’s nothing inherent to their own data center that makes their setup that much better. Having a distributed system across multiple cloud service providers means your actual chance of downtime (here I mean inverse of uptime) is their individual chances of uptime multiplied by each other. In other words, they all have to go down for your service to fail. The catch is you have to use only commodity IaaS and PaaS, nothing proprietary to one CSP.
For smaller companies especially, in terms of pure reliability, there’s no reason to think that they would be better at running a high availability data center than Microsoft or AWS or Google.
Parallel distributed architectures give you the advantages of using public cloud (not having to physically manage your own data center) without the disadvantages (dependence on any one cloud vendor), while also potentially increasing your reliability beyond the reliability of any one of your cloud vendors .
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 4 months ago:
If we want a truly robust system, yeah, we kinda do. This sort of event is only one of the issues with allowing a single entity to control pretty much everything.
What I’m advocating for is the opposite of “allowing one entity to control everything”.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering#Chaos_Mon…
Read about it dude. Netflix has a large presence in all major cloud providers (and they have their own data centers), but has a service whose uptime is NOT dependent on any one of those hosting environments. The proof is the pudding - Netflix service did not go down in the recent AWS outage, nor in the last one.
- Comment on A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions 4 months ago:
We don’t have to. It is entirely possible to engineer applications and services in a way that they’re not dependent on any one cloud service, while also using cloud services for IaaS. Netflix famously does this, and sure enough Netflix experience no service interruptions during this latest outage despite having a large AWS presence.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 5 months ago:
But nah, they’ll just shove AI into everything blow the equivalent of Wikipedia’s annual budget in a week on just electricity to shove unwanted AI slop into people’s faces.
You’re off my several order of magnitude unfortunately. Tech giants are spending the equivalent of the entire fucking Apollo program on various AI investments every year at this point.
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 5 months ago:
It’s more than that dude. Antifa is the perfect boogeyman for the right because it’s left wing, but also not and organization. Who is the leader of antifa? Where are they based? Who do you have to kill to eliminate antifa leadership? How does someone become a member of antifa? These questions have no answers because antifa is not an organization.
Those are also questions that the right wing media machine works hard to get their audience to never ask. That way, by demonizing antifa, they can use force against anyone because anyone they don’t like can be declared antifa, because no one can disprove their membership, because “antifa membership” literally isn’t a thing.
It’s carte blanche to do whatever they want.
It’s honestly just another symptom of Fox News brain rot. Their audience is trained not to ask any relevant questions. It was always going to end badly.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 5 months ago:
Books were among the first things to be pirated and are still among the easiest because the amount of data is so small. People we’re doing that on dial up Internet.
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 5 months ago:
Just dig up an old laptop and setup the full *arr stack with jellyfin. Takes some work up front but after that it’s basically painless.
- Comment on After stretching the definition of 'beta' for 8 years, Escape From Tarkov is finally hitting 1.0 6 months ago:
The limit is when people stop rewarding this behaviour by giving them money.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 7 months ago:
I would wager you have more of an idea of what a state of matter is than biologists do of what a species is. Humans like to put things into nest boxes but nature is under no deal obligation to cooperate.
- Comment on China cut itself off from the global internet on Wednesday 7 months ago:
Chinese government sanctioned groups can and will still access the broader internet.